Two years before they left the US market in 1995, Alfa Romeo jettisoned rear-wheel drive. Their vehicle of abandonment was a quirky plastic sports car built on a classic transaxle layout: the ES-30. »6/30/09 5:15pm 6/30/09 5:15pm

Gjunai Gjursel has probably got some 'splainin to do after his three year old daughter Katarina decided to take a joyride through the Bulgarian town of Beli Lom. The tot apparently hopped into the driver's seat after dad stepped out, she grabbed the keys, turned on the car, shifted into drive and then took off. For a… »5/06/08 12:45pm 5/06/08 12:45pm

While researching the amazing Sofia B Bulgarian sports car, I ran across this fine painting by Ivan Kolev, entitled Dramatic Scene From The First Balkan Race (1929). Check out the doomed occupants of the yellow car- Mr. Kolev is the Bulgarian Robert Williams!

It's impossible not to admire the huevos of that wacky Bulgarian engineer, Velizar Andreev. In the early 80s, he decided that Bulgaria needed to manufacture its own sports cars. Bulgaria being behind the Iron Curtain and firmly in the grip of Moscow's "no fun cars for the masses" ideology at the time, this belief did… »7/11/07 11:00am 7/11/07 11:00am

Yes, it's the Fiat 124, the car that didn't outlast the Beetle or the Mini, but nevertheless jumpstarted a number of automotive industries, including those of the Rodina (Lada Riva), Spain, (SEAT 124), India (Premier 118NE), Bulgaria (Pirin-Fiat) and Turkey. Meanwhile, we're really missing that prepackaged,… »12/22/06 12:45pm 12/22/06 12:45pm

Bulgarian design group, I2B Concept considers its Wildcat study a prospective middle-range supercar. That means it's derived to face off against the Lamborghini Gallardo and Ferrari F430 in the $150,000-$200,000 range. To their mind — and engineering calculations — the low-slung, radically designed exotic will weigh… »11/13/06 7:07am 11/13/06 7:07am

In an effort to cramp the style of organized criminals in Bulgaria, officials in Sofia have decided to start investigating anyone who drives a car worth over 100,000 euros. Apparently, this is largely due to a customs agent known as "The Cigar." Ah, the emergence of the former Eastern Bloc into a Westernized… »10/18/06 5:15pm 10/18/06 5:15pm

Owners of older cars in Sofia, Bulgaria are playing havoc with the city's traffic as they line up for new EU-approved license plates, in some cases waiting in lines four hours long and creating hazardous traffic conditions. Brilliantly, in a city of nearly 1.4 million people, authorities have set up one station where… »3/16/06 3:41pm 3/16/06 3:41pm